E3 2010: From the Stage

We have been blessed with the most dedicated fans in the business and I’d like to take a moment to thank our new members of PlayStation Nation for helping us to achieve nine consecutive months of growth on the PS3 platform. We are constantly looking for new and innovative ways to enhance your entertainment experience on the PS3 and we’re so excited this week to deliver on this promise once again. Today, your PS3 experience already includes Blu-ray games and movies, streamed TV shows and sporting events, and unique original programs, but as we showcased on the E3 stage today, it also delivers cutting edge 3D technology and the most ultra sensory and precise motion gaming solutions available.

There is no denying that Sony is the undisputed leader in 3D technology today and we are the only ones to offer an end to end solution to consumers. With four stereoscopic 3D games available for download already, PlayStation is truly leading the effort to bring theater-like experiences into your living room. There are nearly 36 million PS3 units around the world that are 3D ready today and with demos on the show floor that range from Killzone 3 in 3D to Gran Turismo 5 in 3D, you can get a glimpse of what the future holds as we alter what immersive gameplay means with 3D technology.

We’ve also been working hard to enhance our digital entertainment offerings, which comes packed today with access to live baseball games from MLB.tv, premium original content from HBO, and 23,000 movies and TV shows from all the major networks and studios. We also unveiled PlayStation Plus, an opt-in and add-on service package designed specifically for PlayStation Network’s most avid power users. PlayStation Plus will provide subscribers with added value, access and convenience to special features like discounts on PlayStation Store content, free and exclusive access to select games, full game trials, and much more – all for $49.99 a year. A tremendous value. In the first month alone, you’re getting $49.99 worth of content for free. Existing features and services you enjoy today and have come to expect from PlayStation Network as part of your daily experience, will remain unchanged and free to access.

We set an incredibly high bar last year and we expect to surpass it this year by reaching our goal of 15 million PS3 units worldwide. When we say ‘It Only Does Everything’ we know we’re also making a promise to you, that we will continue to deliver new experiences and entertainment options that you didn’t even know you wanted today and many years from now.

For those of you who were not able to join us at the Shrine auditorium this morning, you can download the full presentation on the PlayStation Network.

I also invite all of you to virtually attend E3 in PlayStation Home where you can view our full presentation an experience a virtual replica of our PlayStation booth.

When we say ‘It Only Does Everything’ we know we’re also making a promise to you, that we will continue to deliver new experiences and entertainment options that you didn’t even know you wanted today and many years from now.

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That is unless they decide it should not have that feature anymore. That is what happened with my OtherOS which is why I still have a PS3 on FW 3.15.

And I would like to say thanks to you Mr. Tretton and all the other wonderful people at Sony and studios that work with Sony. As a long time PlayStation fan, I still remember running home from school in’99 and ripping my backpack off and seeing the PlayStation my mom got me and playing the hell out of Tekken 3. I really want to say congrats on another great year guys and the future is looking brighter and even more awesome. And I’m happy to be apart of the millions of other PlayStation gamers that are a part of gaming history. Again from a proud PlayStation fan to the awesome people at Sony, Thank You!!!!

This was a good conference, but somehow disappointing. Not because of the content, but how you guys decide to show it. There has to be a complete overhaul on how you present your games. There were a lot of games that were “announced” in a software reel (Patapon 3, Echochrome 2, Eyepet PSP, Sly Collection, just to name a few). I thought that by announcing four games before E3, you would make space for new announcements, but instead we got to hear almost everything we had heard before. So in my opinion, announcing them before was a mistake.

The other thing is that there is not organization in the conference, there´s talk about PSN, then PS3 games, then back to PSN, etc. Killzone 3 was shown like 4 times in software reels.

I’m not going to make this longer, but please try to make the following E3’s conference better in substance, more game trailers, better announcements (give more time to games that matter instead of showing them in software reel or just mentioning them), better organization.

Great conference Jack! It was very exciting. I am hoping to hear more about the subscription service (namely whether or not there will the ability to save games to the cloud) and am glad that movies will come to the Canadian PSN store.

It would have been nice to see some more 3rd party titles that were missing from your presentation (like Castlevania and perhaps Final Fantasy XIII Versus) though…

Your argument about Live fails, because M$ is charging you $50 a year to just be able to play online. Sony is giving everyone online play for free. The $50 a year is for additional content and features. HUGE difference.

epic wpic win , great show, im a true gamer, been one many many years, ps3 is definately the best GAMING system out of them all and just got better. thanx for removing that feature ya did , making it more safe. psn premium has me sold. as does ps3 3d as soon as i can get my hands on a 3dtv. ps3 just got even better and im excited for the future. thank you sony for making gaming the best it can be. keep up the great work.

You guys seriously need to retool how you conduct your E3 presentation. The first half was boring as all hell. It only became decent because you actually showed what little games you had. Also, the only game I’m looking forward to on the PS3, The Last Guardian, is not even in the montage? Yeah, I’m done with this console when I’m done finishing The Last Guardian.

So Sony gets third parties back on board with the PS3 so much for the Xbox fanboys and their we get content first crap. Now we get Medal of Honor Content first, Mafia 2 content first, and exclusive PS3 only content for games like Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, ToyStory 3, and the like. What a major upset for Microsoft as they held that over our heads for so long.

Now I’m not giving up my PS3 till the bitter end! SONY WON THIS SO HARDCORE It’s not even worth explaining to fanboys. (Nintendo did great as well, but came up a bit short)

TH3_Hammer_29 first of all Jack wasn’t putting down Microsoft charging $50 bucks and secondly sony is not charging us to play online, but Microsoft charging you to play online. p.s. ppl they ran out of time

This has forced my enmity to flow from my body and fill with gooey love. No longer do I care about clinging to 3.15, Sign me up for 50 bucks a year of crap.

Phh right. Did I hear right that PSN+ also includes AUTOMATIC UPDATES? So I’d have to give up something valuable to me, plus money, and also the chance that Sony will automatically update something else away without my wishes? ****n’ heck.

Well, at least you’ve got Portal 2. So Nintendo didn’t annihilate you, it was just a decisive rout.

I had hopes for a PSP2 annoucement but no such thing yet. Twisted Metal stole the show even though we won’t get it till next year I’m still hyped about it. Hopefully bigger news during the Tokyo Game Show.

I’m a die hard playstation fan. No matter how mediocre it was I still love what Playstation has in store for us. I already have a list of games to but even though only 3 of them actually showcased at the conference. No matter what I’ll continue to support playstation because like you said Jack “We here at Playstation are all about genre defining kick-ass games”